The Prelinger Library is a private research library open to the public, located in downtown San Francisco. Its collections encompass some 50,000 books, periodical volumes and printed ephemera. The Prelinger Library is currently curating this online collection of public domain materials in key subject areas. Click for more information about the Prelinger Library
Topic: Prelinger
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improvisation around a theme using material from the prelinger archive
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View thousands of films from the Prelinger Archives! Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. Over the next twenty years, it grew into a collection of over 60,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. In 2002, the film collection was acquired by the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division . Prelinger Archives remains in existence, holding approximately 11,000 digitized and...
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Home Movies from the Prelinger Archives. For more information see the Prelinger Archives
A collection of twisted short clips, taken exclusively from the freely downloadable movies at www.archive.org, set to an original, spleen-bursting score. An uplifting guide to the odd, musty chunks littering the floors of the Prelinger Archives. This movie is available as a DVD-compliant MPEG2, a VCD-compliant MPEG1, and whatever other formats you see listed to your left.
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Topics: Clipfilms, Prelinger Archival Footage
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10/19
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Here's the logos and titles from the Prelinger Achieves
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A sequel to PRELINGER SILLY BULLS!, found elsewhere in this archive. More like it, only different.
Topics: clipfilm, clipfilms, panucci, prelinger, music, syllables, car crash, death
A syncopated juxtaposition of some of the odder footage found in the Prelinger Archives. No kiddin', this one will give you a for-real headache. Intended for the youngsters - you old people may find it "challenging". This is a sequel to earlier episodes in the PRELINGER! series, which can be found here: HOT PRELINGER ON A BUN PRELINGER ASSEMBLED! PRELINGER ARE CHIVES! COMPENDIUM PRELINGER TWICE A NIGHT Honestly, the above selections are hard-core brilliant. You don't like 'em? You're...
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Topics: clipfilm, clipfilms, prelinger, panucci
Prelinger Archive Mashups
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10/11
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Jon Obsworth http://vimeo.com/jonobsworth
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Prelinger Five is an improvisation of composited clips from the Rick Prelinger Archive featuring Hollywood Boogie...Soundie
Topics: Prelinger Five, improvisation, composited, Rick Prelinger Archive, Hollywood Boogie...Soundie,...
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INTERVIEW WITH RICK PRELINGER for Steal This Film (frag). San Francisco, Abril 2007. (Subtitulos en espagnol). Provisionalmente traducido y subtitulado por Felix Perez Hita para Horitzo.tv (La Capella, Barcelona, noviembre del 2009). http://horitzo.tv
Topics: horitzo.tv, horitzo, prelinger, copyright, copyleft, archives, spanish, subtitles, felix cugat,...
Rick Prelinger Favorites
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What happens when you make close to 2,000 ephemeral public domain films freely available on the Web? People make art and more films are born! Here’s a sample of films created with Prelinger Archives footage and uploaded to the Internet Archive. However, Rick Prelinger suspects thousands more are uploaded on other video sites. If you have a video you created using footage from the Prelinger Archives, please let us know so we can include it here.
Topics: Prelinger mashup, remix, Prelinger
Prelinger Archive Mashups
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Oct 8, 2011
10/11
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Jon Obsworth http://vimeo.com/working man
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A cut/edit from "The Prelinger Archive," with some animations. with FC4X - compositing and layers.
Topics: The Prelinger Archive, animations, experimenting, improvising, FC4E, compositing and layers
a cut from the prelinger archives featuring a spoof advertisement depicting the El railway El diner http://vimeo.com/29532663
Topics: the El railway, prelinger archive, Prelinger 3, El DINER
A journey through life, soundtracked by Schoenberg. A short film assembled entirely from material gleaned from the Prelinger archive.
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Topics: mashup, schoenberg, romance, marriage, death, piano, classical
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07/02
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Prelinger (Rick)
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Official Prelinger Archives corporate video, describing its contents and mission. With excerpts of many films in the collection and rare scenes shot inside the New York vaults.
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Topics: Motion pictures: Ephemeral, Motion pictures: Archives, Prelinger Archives
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Film and Video from the Prelinger Archive collected as source material for various non-commercial project use by misc.graphics
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Mar 27, 2012
03/12
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This is a short montage of Prelinger clips to be used as a broadcast intro for our public access station. Music from the free music archive.
Topics: Prelinger archive, intro, broadcast, nctv
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Donation of books from Prelinger Library. Books, periodicals and ephemera. Pallets: IA11789 IA11793 IA11794 IA11795 IA11796 IA11797 IA11808 IA11935 IA11939 IA13077 IA13586 IA12401
Topic: Donation from Rick Prelinger Library
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Module in datacenter 1 (Florida Avenue, Richmond), row 2, column 13, height 0 (bottom) Prelinger Film (full) IA13099 IA13147 IA13129 IA13149 IA13134 IA13426 IA12869 IA12868 IA13133 IA12867 IA13148 IA12866 IA12865 IA13425 IA14299
Topic: Container IA12130 at Florida
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Felix Cugat
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On the air (Prelinger archive)
Topics: on the air, felixcugat, Felix Perez-Hita, video, vudutv
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Donation of Film from Rick Prelinger to the Internet Archive. Pallets: IA15861 IA15860 IA14293 IA14294 IA14233 IA14234 IA14236 IA14235
Topic: Donation from Rick Prelinger of Film
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05/13
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"such is life" prelinger archive clip cut "tribute" to lord sutch music,
Topics: tribute, lord such, prelinger archive, such is life
a mix of classic Coronet video moments
Topics: prelinger, coronet, popula, lunchroom, atom, polite, classroom
Sit down with a spare afternoon, a case of MILWAUKEE'S BEST ICE, a couple hundred archived CDs of Prelinger films, and this happens. You'll probably enjoy this more if you're stoned out of your mind. The movie's evocatively arranged imagery may induce low birth-weight in susceptible individuals. The MPEG1 file is VCD-ready and will look okay on your TV or computer monitor. The other formats are inferior exercises in video compression. Download them only if you must.
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Topics: Clipfilms, Prelinger Archival Footage
Another in the famed series of artfully-assembled clip compilations made from public domain films found here at archive.org. The understated fancy-ass classical score was provided by the Frank Panucci Community Orchestra.
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Topics: clipfilm, rocket, blastoff, shuttle, butt, dancer, robot, brat, dryer-lint fetish, panucci
Nudity alert. A collection of girly clips, set to a nicely bombastic piece of music. This movie is made entirely from the vintage burlesque shorts available here at the PRELINGER ARCHIVES. Every shot involves nudity or near-nudity. Do not download this movie if you are a repressed, blue-nosed freak. The files I uploaded are the VCD-ready MPEG1 and the Quicktime .mov. The MPEG1 has the best picture and sound. The Quicktime is smaller, with swooshy audio-compression artifacts and barely...
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Topics: Erotica:stripper, Clipfilms, Prelinger Archival Footage
A collection of pleasantly disturbing short clips, taken exclusively from the freely downloadable movies at www.archive.org, set to a nerve-wracking original score. Carefully chosen, these clips convey, through conceptual progression, a whimsical, filthy dread. An inspiring trip through the flaky detritus hob-knobbing with the dust mites in the Prelinger Archives. This movie is available as a DVD-compliant MPEG2, a VCD-compliant MPEG1, and whatever other formats you see listed to your left.
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Topics: Clipfilms, Prelinger Archival Footage
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Donation of Microfilm from Rick Prelinger. Pallets: IA15040 IA13093
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Rick Prelinger Lecture November 2016 at the Artists Television Access in San Francisco. filmed (badly) by Brewster Kahle on an iphone.
Topics: Rick Prelinger, lecture
The unholy communion between the biological and not-so-logical, illustrated succinctly with clips from the PRELINGER ARCHIVES. A Stepford wife demeans you with her knowing gaze, while another handles a teapot, short and stout but packed with chromium punch. It delivers what her flaming man cannot. Do you care that the siren reveals her true nature by her spasms, her sparks, her smell of ozone? The overworked invisible cyborg mimics the Israeli bulldozer corps. You are denied access to the...
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Logos and Titles Prelinger Archives
Topics: Prelinger Archives, Logos
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A collection of unusual short clips, taken exclusively from the freely downloadable movies at www.archive.org, set to an original, butt-stomping score. Includes antique nudity. Many excellent examples of the weird wonders hiding in the Prelinger Archives. There are two more compilations in this series, even cooler than this one! Download them now! http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?id=4653 http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?id=4655 This movie is available as a DVD-compliant...
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Topics: Clipfilms, Prelinger Archival Footage
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I stumbled on the Prelinger Archive almost two years ago. It led me to the Internet Archive and the most fun with videos I have had in many years. I have downloaded every film in the Prelinger part of the Archive and love to spend a Saturday editing Prelinger Clips for fun. This video is my way of saying Thank You to the Prelinger Archive for being so kind and sharing so much material. I also want to thank the Internet Archive and it’s sponsors for bringing these materials to the world. If...
Topics: Bridgewater Video, Music Video, BTV, BTV Music Video, Documentary
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It's been a while since I made one of these. Here's another. Two or so random minutes set to soothing music.
Topics: prelinger, mashup, prelinger mashup, panucci
See what you can do, to protect yourself in the case of an attack of the atomic bomb.
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Topics: prelinger, archive, atombomb
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D.D. Teoli Jr. as archivist
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Megan Prelinger discusses her work as an archivist.
Topics: Megan Prelinger, archivist, archival, Prelinger Library, library, ephemera, D.D. Teoli Jr. A.C.,...
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cut/edit from the prolonger archive
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A musical adventure made up of individual monosyllabic blurts culled exclusively from the free footage found here in the archives.
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Three Pallets of Books Donated by Rick Prelinger IA14278 IA14279 IA14285 Unscanned Books Last updated 2016-11-21 by Marc Wendt
Topic: RPA-08182016 Donation from Rick Prelinger
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Rick Prelinger presents "Lost Landscapes of San Francisco" event, an eclectic montage of lost and rarely seen film clips showing life, landscapes and labor in a vanished San Francisco as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen and industrial filmmakers. How we remember and record the past reveals much about how we address the future. Rick Prelinger collects the uncollected and makes it accessible. Since 1983 Rick has been collecting ephemeral films: advertising, educational,...
